Safety-pin.



No. 766,641. PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904. A. J. MEIER.

SAFETY PIN.

APPLIGATION FILED AUG. 22, 1903.

NO MODEL.

Patented August 2, 1904.

PATENT OEEIcE.

ALBERT J. MEIER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SAFETY-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,641, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed August 22, 1903- To (LZZ whom it ntrry concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT J. MEIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Safety-Pins, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an elevational view of my improved safety-pin. Fig. 2 is asectional view on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line I 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an elevational view of amodified form of safetypin, and Fig. 6 is a top plan view of said modification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in safety-pins, the object being to construct a pin of the character described of one piece of materialto wit, forming the hood, point-guide, and spring-guard of the same material as that composing the members of the pin.

WVith these objects in view my invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts, all as will hereinafter be described, and afterward pointed out in the claims.

In the construction of my improved pin I prefer to use wire of the required gage and form the hood by flattening one end of the wire and subsequently bending the flattened portions to the required shape. A pointguide may be produced by pinching the wire at the proper place to form a lateral enlargement of the wire, or the wire may be bent to guide the point of the pin into the hood, as shown in the modified form, and the springguard, as I have termed it, being the projection which prevents material sliding on the pin and being caught in the coiled spring, or rounding the pin in the absence of the coiled spring, may preferably be formed by pinching the wire or upsetting it. I do not wish to be limited to the exact shape or location of the Serial No- 170,409. (No model.)

hood, point-guide, or spring-guard, as the same may be changed without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

In the drawings, 1 indicates the piercing member, which is pointed at its free end and joined to the connecting member either by means of a coil 2, forming a spring, or the coil may be dispensed with, as shown in Fig. 5. In any event I provide an enlargement 3 near the attached end of the piercing member, which enlargement may be in the form of a lateral projection extending to one side, so as to form a spring-guard, as shown in Fig. 1, or the wire may be upset, as shown at 3, Figs. 5 and 6.

4 indicates the connecting member, which carries the point-guide and hood at one end and the piercing member at the other. This connecting member as well as the piercing member are preferably curved inwardly or to ward each other between their ends, as shown in Fig. 1, so that when the parts are under stress they will assume substantially straight lines, as indicated by the dotted lines. The end of this connecting member a opposite that whereon is carried the piercing member is bent upwardly and may without any enlargement form the pin-point guide 5,as shown in Fig. 5, or said bent portion may be laterally enlarged, as at 5 in Fig. 1, to form the guide for the pin-point. This bent portion is flattened at its extremity, and the flattened sides are bent downwardly or inwardly to form the hood 6. This hood is designed to cover the point of the piercing member and restrain the same from outward movement, as is well understood, and may be of any desired size.

I am aware that minor changes in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of my device can be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without in the least departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a safety-pin, the combination with connecting and piercing members, of a hood,

spring 2, a projection 3 at the junction of the piercing member and coiled spring, a con- 5 necting member a point-guide 5, and a hood 6, all of said parts being made integral; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, in the presence of two Witnesses, 20

this 19th day of August, 1903.

ALBERT J. MEIER.

Witnesses:

WM. H. ScoTT, F. R. CORNWALL. 

